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Online-Ressource (258 p)
ISBN:
9789004233188
Series Statement:
Mnemosyne, Supplements
Content:
In The Privileges of Death: Images of Immortality in Verse Inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman Periods Andrzej Wypustek provides a study of various forms of poetic heroization that became increasingly widespread in Greek funerary epigram in the 1st-3rd centuries AD
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Description based upon print version of record
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Images of Eternal Beauty in Funerary Verse Inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman Periods; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Illustrations and Credits; Introduction; I. Eschatological Themes in Epigrams; Alternative Possibilities about the Status of Dead; Scholarly Debate; Modes and Means of Production; Varieties of Experience, Pluralities of Perspectives; Individualism and Polemic; Between Uniformity and Diversity, towards Interpretation; II. The Dead As Gods; Apotheosis of the Dead in Verse-Inscriptions; Gods, Heroes, and Humans; Private Defications?
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Apotheosis in the EtherEpigraphic Testimonies; Understanding the Broad Circulation; Astral Immortality; Apotheosis among the Stars in Verse-Inscriptions; The Impact of Imperial Ideology; Elite and Popular Appeal; III. The Dead As Heroes; Heroic Iconography: Limits of Testimony; "Hρως on Tombs and in Funerary Foundations; Heroisation in Funerary Epigrams; The Meaning of ήρως; Immortal Gratitude, with Style; Heroes, Daemons, and the Dead; Epigrams and Consolations; The Diverging Semantic Dimensions; The Deceased Privileged As Heroes; IV. Marriages with the Gods; Gods Abducting Mortals
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Persephone and Hades in Funerary EpigramsMystic Wedding?; Orphic Hypothesis: Epigram for Theophile; Persephone, Eleusinia, and the Underworld; Brides and Bridegrooms in Their Prime; Abduction of Young, Handsome Adonis; V. The Deceased As the Chosen Ones and the Lovers of Deities; 'Those Chosen by Deities Die Young'; Epigraphic Testimonies; Peculiar Development: Ganymede in Verse-Inscriptions; Ganymede in Funerary Art; Spirituality or Carnality of the Myth, or Both; Zeus, His Thunderbolt, and the Dead; Death Caused by Lightning; Between Miracles, Allegories, and Fables
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VI. The Deceased As the Charges of DeitiesIsidora, Hylas and the Nymphs; The Deceased and Nymphs in Epigrams; Meaning: Eschatological, not Soteriological; Kουροτρόφοι in the Afterlife; VII. Overview and Conclusions; Mythological Frame of Reference; The Lessons of Sarcophagi; Eschatology and Mythopoeia; The Beauty and Youth of the Dead in Verse-Inscriptions; Polyfunctional and Polysemantic Beauty; The Meaning of True Beauty, the Sense of Divine Abduction; Celebration of (After)Life; Bibliography; Index of Ancient Names; Index of Subjects; Index of Notable Greek Terms;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004233201
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004233188
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Images of Eternal Beauty in Funerary Verse Inscriptions of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman Periods
Language:
English
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